Bruneau, Alfred

Bruneau, Alfred (3 March 1857, Paris; 15 June 1934, Paris), composer, studied with Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire in Paris. He played in the Pasdeloup Orchestra, and his cantata entitled Geneviève de Paris won a Prix de Rome for him, but his interests were directed almost exclusively toward the theatre. He wrote a three-act opera entitled Kérim for the Théâtre du Château d’Eau in the spring of 1887, and he went on to devote most of his time and energy to the composition of works for the…